The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Movietone newsreel item on the visit to Australia of the British Pacific Fleet just prior to action in the Okinawa campaign. Features the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious and the battleship HMS King George V . The commander of the fleet Admiral Rawlings aboard HMS King George V. Fleet Air Arm Grumman F6FHellcat fighters manhandled on HMS Illustrious. The docking of HMS Illustrious in the recently completed Captain Cook Dry Dock. The flag ship of the British Pacific Fleet the battleship HMS Howe and the cruiser HMS Achilles visit New Zealand. Vought F4U Corsairs of the RNZAF and the NZ cruiser HMNZS Gambia exercise with the Royal Navy in New Zealand waters. HMNZS Gambia launches torpedoes and HMS Howe fires a broadside. See also F03517.
Informal group portrait of Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, King George VI and Captain M. Denny, HMS Victorious, in 1944. Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser took command of the British Eastern Fleet in August 1944, be
Reel 1. Titles: The arrival of HRH The Duke of Gloucester at Portsmouth in HMAS Australia March 1935 At sea in the fog with the 1st Cruiser Squadron and some destroyers. A sailing race in Plymouth So
1. New Strength. The introduction of the Westland Wessex HAS.31 anti submarine helicopters, HMAS Supply (AO-195) a Tide class fleet oiler and Ton class minesweepers. The first of twenty seven Wessex h
1. VE (Victory Europe) Day celebrations, London 8 May 1945. Shows Thanksgiving Service at St Paul's Cathedral. Crowds and nearby bombed sites. Close up view of the Royal Carriage passing below. 2.
On 8 October 1940 HMAS Sydney sailed with the fleet for operation M.B.6 covering a Malta convoy. Whilst the destroyers in rotation fueled in Malta, HMAS Sydney was detached which was unfortunate that
The 1914 Anzac men leave France for two months furlough in Australia. Anzac Day London 1919. Inter allied games held at Joinville Le Pont, Paris. No. 4 Squadron AFC occupy a German aerodrome at Col
